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04954aam a2200433 i 4500 001 197CA18C253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 211113s2022 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021053926 020 $a 1108815294 020 $a 9781108815291 020 $a 1108841929 020 $a 9781108841924 035 $a (OCoLC)1280274409 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d IVU $d YDX $d NYP $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS169.H86 $b C36 2022 082 00 $a 810.9/3561 $2 23/eng/20220307 245 04 $a The Cambridge companion to American literature and the body / $c edited by Travis M. Foster. 246 30 $a American literature and the body 264 1 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xv, 279 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge companions to literature 520 $a "This volume provides students of American literature with models and methods for approaching the question of embodiment. It underscores the body as at once dynamic, shaping our experience of the world through complex interplay between social and biological influences, and intersectional, resisting attempts for discrete analysis at every turn. By highlighting these two qualities, The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body foregrounds the body's enmeshed interspersal throughout core concerns of American literary studies, including those focused on race, gender, sexuality, history, and ecology. Despite this range of fields, the insights from one particular field--disability studies--comprise the volume's most prominent conceptual resource, providing a thread linking essays on topics as seemingly varied as sentimental fiction, slave narratives, the history of reading, and ecocriticism. The significance of disability studies to discussions of embodiment in American literature shouldn't be surprising. Disability, illness, and chronic pain were among the first topics within Americanist criticism to veer away from a Cartesian mind/body split that otherwise frequently manifested in starker and more binary terms than even Descartes envisioned. To take just one example, William Joseph Long's 1913 American Literature: A Study of the Men and the Books that in the Earlier and Later Times Reflect the American Spirit almost exclusively speaks of authors as disembodied creators. The notable exception occurs when Long turns to those writers experiencing sickness and chronic pain, such as Puritan Michael Wigglesworth, whose experience as a "lifelong sufferer from disease" finds itself reflected in the "powerful but morbid imagination" of his poetry. Despite the limitations of his ableist worldview, the disabled bodies of his subjects force Long into a nascent understanding of how bodies and creative imaginations collaborate to produce visions of the world that influence readers' perceptions and understandings"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Ecocriticism and the body / $r Delia Byrnes. $t Sentimentalism and the feeling body / $r Claudia Stokes -- $t Slavery, disability and the Black body/white body complex in the American slave narrative / $r Maurice Wallace -- $t Monstrous bodies of the American gothic / $r Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet -- $t Bodies at war / $r Colleen Glenney Boggs -- $t Decolonizing the body in multiethnic American fiction / $r Sony CoraÌnÌez Bolton -- $t Science fiction's humanoid bodies of the future / $r Frances Tran -- $t Contemporary North American transgender literature: realness, fantasy, and the body / $r Stephanie Clare -- $t Feminist theory, feminist criticism, and the sex/gender distinction / $r Christine "Xine" Yao -- $t Reading bodies and textual materialities / $r Thomas Constantinesco -- $t How to read disabled bodies in history / $r Erica Fretwell -- $t How to read disabled bodies now : crip of color critique / $r Anna Hinton -- $t Health humanities, illness, and the body in American literature / $r Lindsey Grubbs -- $t The indigenous body in American literature / $r Sean Teuton -- $t The Black body and the reading of race / $r Christine Okoth -- $t Ecocriticism and the body / $r Delia Byrnes. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Human body in literature. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Human body in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01899762 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $t Cambridge companion to American literature and the body. $d Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 $z 9781108895170 $w (DLC) 2021053927 700 1 $a Foster, Travis M., $e editor. 830 0 $a Cambridge companions to literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023200.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=197CA18C253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search